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October 5th, 1957...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Honeycomb"
by Jimmie Rodgers

In the UK:
"Diana"
by Paul Anka
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Edward Murrow

(TIME Cover: September the 30th, 1957)

 Famous people born on the 5th of October:

1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1864 - Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
1942 - Richard Street, American r&b singer (The Temptations)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer & songwriter (The Boomtown Rats)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957


Albert Camus
1913-1960

for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times

France



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai
directed by David Lean
with Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson) and Sessue Hayakawa (Saito)

Designed in 1957

The Wall clock, model 2237
by George Nelson

 
 
 
     

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